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VOL. NEW CASES OF “YELLOW JACK IN VARIOUS TOWNS. MOBILE IS NOW IN DIRE'- DANGER. New Orleans Shows Additional Cases of \ the Oread Dlseases-Feople Floe From the Feat ilenc«. Three new cases of yellow fever were officially announced Tuesday by tbe board of health of Mobile, Ala. Tbe announcement caused much mbre alarm than did the discovery of the first case, which was regarded as sporadic. The people who can ave leaving for points of safety. Home 0700 worth of tickets to At¬ lanta were sold during the day by the Louisville and Nashville railroad and outgoing.traius are crowded. The Same is true of the bains on tbe Mobile and Ohio railroad. V)r. Guiteras left Mobile for Ed "wards, Miss., ordered thither to inves¬ tigate -the- disease prevailing there. He Reclined hr tell what have been his observations, saying be bad first to re¬ port to the surgeon general at WasU ington. department The has sent out the follfegy.il g from' Wash ing ton: part of tins city nearth© totality of the <*as<» vcporteil today, and wherts the disease, l')r. Guffefns says, will to begin assume and epi demie form.’’ * When asked upon what he based his telegram to the surgeon general that Hi^re would *be a spread of tlie disease. fee said that the,city has had a long immunity from the disease and there is much material for it to feed upon. Jachffdn'ii I'opniatlon getting 1 . About half the population of Jack son, Miss., lias fled, the exodus being caused by rumors of yellow fever at Edwardg, twenty evening miles; west/yffieially be yellow stated Tuesday to fever. Tbe state authorities have called on Wyman for help. Business is suspended, though many best people, feere, Some of them the know-n citizens of the state, refuse to leave. All mails have been ordered fumigated by the health authorities. The Howard Association has been organized, with Colonel Stew’art as president, and is ready for any emer¬ gency. Situation at New OiteMU. At nightfall Tuesday the books of tbe New Orleans board of health show¬ ed the’ following recapitulation of the yellow fever situation: There has been reported to the board for Investigation tweuty-six oases which the at¬ tending physicians considered eonspieious. ()f tUeswthirteen eases had teen found suf¬ fering witu a harmless fever, five eases were regarded as suspicious but necessary to be further investigated before a definite report could be made upon them; there were no re¬ ports as to four eases, and four eases had "teen pronounced genuine yellow fever, though one of th© latter was classed as of a mild type.” The most serious of the four yellow fever cases is located in the neighbor¬ hood of the French market. USED WINCHESTERS. Miners and Guard. ExelianKe Slid. In tlie Jellico District. .4 A speeial from Oswego, Tenn., a small station on the Knoxville and Ohio road in the Jellico mining dis¬ trict, gives account of an encounter Tuesday night between eight United States marshals and the striking min¬ ers. deputies The marshals are special sent to guard the property of the Standard Coal and Coke Company, which ifT in the hands of United States court receivers, Non-union miners were put to work and trouble came as expected. marched toward tbe A mob compa¬ ny’s store when they were ordered by the marshals to halt and leave the property, which they refused to do. The lnsgshals then took refuge in a blacksmith'shop aud fired upon the mob. The miners reheated, bnt re¬ turned the fire with their winchesters. WRECKED VESSEL FOUND. But None of tbe Big Fortification Guu* ■ - Were Located. The wreck of the schooner Agnes I. Grace, which sunk August 6th, with four sixteen-ton guns for the Tybee fortifications on board, was located Tuesday twenty miles southeast of Tybee sea buoy by the tug William F. McCauley. The wreck had moved about It miles from tbe position buoyed by the United States buoy tender Wistaria. The deck was sounded in search of the guns, but they w ere not on board. They evidently rolled overboard when the vessel sunk. The Grace is fast breaking up. Wayne County News. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, IT, 1897. A MURDEROUS FAMILY. Gkastly Crimes Committed t>y the Staffle backs—Lynching Probable. A special dispatch states that the Staffleback murder trials at Columbus, Kas., have brought to light some bloody butcheries that rival the crime of the Bender family twenty years ago. The Staffleback family, consisting of mother, stepfather and three sons, have for years been murdering and Tobbing people and five murders have been traced to them by developments in Monday’s and Tuesday’s trials. Separate trials were'given the three Staffleback boys and their mother. They murdered a man named Frank Galbreath at Galena, Kansas, last July and threw the body into an old abandoned mining shaft. On the trial George Staffleback broke down and not only confessed to this murder, but told of other mur¬ ders that the family had committed. His wife also revealed some of thoir crimes. One of the murders was that of an unknown Italian peddler two years ago. His body was also thrown into au abandoned mining shaft. Two girls who were inmates of the Staffleback house and witnessed this murder were killed and thrown into the shaft two weeks after the peddler’s murder. An old man was killed and robbed by these peoj.de, five years ago in Jop¬ lin, Mo. Crowds of men are watching the search for the bodies, determined to lynch the whole family if the bodies are'fonnd as represented. , The Stufflelmcks are in jail in Colum¬ bus, Kan., and representatives of the vigilauts who have organized to lynch them are seeing that they are not re¬ moved. . POPULISTS ISSUE ADDRESS. Special Committee Holds a Meeting: In l.yni'liburg, Va. The populist special committee which met at Lynchburg, Va., Tues¬ day night lias given out its address to the "people’s party of Virginia.” The address severely censures the democratic state convention for its re¬ fusal to nominate Captain Cocke, the populist, for lieuteutaut governor, idig characterizing such refusal as an nity and insult to the populist party under the circupistances. The address, however, says that in the opinion of the committee condi¬ tions have not so changed as to make any further populist nominations desir¬ able able; urges that to populists elect Cooke use lieutenant all honor¬ means governor, and to elect members of the legislature wherever they can, the committee affirming its belief that many “patriotic democrats” will indi¬ cate tlieir disapproval of tbe demo¬ cratic convention’s action by voting w ith tbe populists. Only three out of tbe five members of tbe committee signed the address. STORM REPORT EXAGGERATED. Eater and More Accurate Dispatches Are items Received. Later and more accurate reports re¬ ceived Tuesday from points in the storm belts in Texas show that tbe reports that reached Galveston were greatly exaggerated. following At Sabine Pass the are re¬ ported as drowned: Captains Green B. Moore, L. L. Bettis, George Wal ford and Engineer William Batchcliff. These men were all on vessels which sunk.' Along-the Gulf anil Interstate railway several were injured, but none were killed. Port Arthur suffered the brunt of , tbe blast and half tbe town is estima¬ ted to have been destroyed or badly injured. Only two people were killed. MASSILLON MINERS AT WORK. They Hold Mas. Meeting and Decide to Accept New Kate. Tlie coal miners in the Massillon, O., district held a delegate mass meet¬ ing and decided to accept tbe new rate for mining at the expiration of the ten days’ limit. Parts of the compromise agreement were rejected, however, and a commit¬ tee was appointed to confer with the operators. If the demands of the men are not granted within ten days the strike will be continued. Four hundred men at the Goshen mines re¬ turned to work Tuesday ignoring the ten days’ danse. the Silver Creek All the mines in and Clinton districts, near AkroD, have resumed operations. r CIVIL SERVICE KNOCKED OUT. Judge Cox, of District of Colombia, Ken tiers Important I>eci*ion« A Washington dispatch says: Tbe back door of removal is still open. Such was the decision of Judge Cox, of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, Tuesday morning in the case of John D. Wood, superintendent of mails at Louisville. Wood asked that Postmaster Gen¬ eral Gary and Assistant Postmaster General Heath be enjoined from remov¬ ing him from office. The case was con¬ sidered a test of the power of removal, andthe delivery of the opinion drew to court room many public officials, in¬ cluding tbe members of the civil ser¬ vice commission. SHOT DOWN BY A PENNSYLVANIA SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTIES. THE LIST OF DEAD IS APPALLING. Miners Were Marching and the Officers Attempted to Stop Them—Troops Called Out. * The strike situation in Pennsylvania reached a terrible crisis on the out¬ skirts of the town of Latimer Friday afternoon, when a bund of deputy sheriffs fired into an infuriated mob of miners. The men fell like so many sheep and the excitement was so intense that no accurate figures of the dead acd wounded could be obtained. Reports were that from fifteen to twenty-odd were killed and forty or more wounded, many of whom will die. One man, who reached the scene im¬ mediately after the shooting, counted thirteen corpses. Four other dead lay in the mountains between Latimer and Hurleigh. Those who were not injured carried, their dead and wounded friends into the woods. Three bodies were found Friday night on Mie road near Latimer. HOW THE 8RAUGHTKR BEGAN. The strikers left Hazelton at 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon, announcing th ir intention to go to Latimer. As soon as this became known a band of deputies was loaded ou a trolly car and sent whirling across the mountain to the scene where the bloody conflict followed. After reaching Latimer they left the car and formed into three companies, under Thomas Hall, E. A. Hessel and Samuel B. Price. They drew up in a line at the edge of the vi! (age with a fence and a line of houses in the rear, Sheriff Martin was in command and stood in front of the line until the strikers approached. They and were Martin seen coming across the ridge went out to meet them. The men drew up sullenly and list¬ ened in silence until he had once more read the riot act. This finished, a low muttering arose among the foreigners and there was a slight move forward. Perceiving this the sheriff stepped toward them and in a determined tone forbade advance. Some one struck the sheriff and the next moment there w r as a command to tl’e deputies to fire. The guns, of tlie deputies instantly belched forth a ter¬ rible volley. Tbe strikers were taken entirely by surprise and as tbe men toppled and fell over each other those who remain¬ ed unhurt stampeded. The deputies seemed to. be terror stricken at the deadly execution of their guns and seeing the living strikers fleeing and the others drop¬ ping to the earth, they went to the aid of the unfortunates whom they had brought down. The people of Latimer rushed pell mell to the scene, but the shrieks of the wounded drowned the cries of the sympathizing and half-crazed inhabi t&iits Sheriff Martin sent a telegram to Governor Hastings, stating that mob law prevailed in the lower end of the county, and asking for assistance. Governor Hastings ordered Colonel Dougherty, Ninth regiment, N» G. P., to start for Hazelton at once. The regiment left Wilkesbarre for Hazelton at 5 o’clock Saturday morn¬ ing. CARDED OCT. TROOPS A Harrisburg special says: Gover nor Ilastings ordered out the Third brigade, of which General Gobin is commander, Friday night, and in¬ structed General Bhall to bold the First brigade in readiness. The troops mobilized at Hazelton, and were on the scene before daybreak Saturday morning. Captain A. R. Paxton, United States army, attached to the National Guard, started for Ha¬ zelton by direction of the governor. Superintencent Creighton, of the mid¬ dle division of the Pennsylvania rail¬ road, was called into the conference at the executive mansion, and arranged for the speedy transportation of the. soldiers. i TO FORM BEER TRUST. American Malting: Company Organised With Capital of •30,000,000. It is learned at Chicago that the men who are the principal promoters in the big malting company which was form¬ ed in New York a few days ago are the Milwaukee malteTs and brewers. Instead of being a simple combina¬ tion of matters, it appears that tbe brewers are also interested in the com¬ bination and that it is to be conducted on such a gigantic scale that it will virtually control the brewing business of the country. The American Malting company, as the new combine will be known, will have a capita! of 030,000,000. DENOUNCED BY GOMPERS. De Declares the Slaughter at Hazelton Was Brutal Murder. In an interview Saturday, President Gomperp of the American Federation of Labor, after denouncing the killing of the men near Hazelton as a brutal murder, said: “The men were marching in the public highway. They bad as much right to march to Latimer or any other place on the public highway as the sheriff or governor of Pennsylvania or the president of the United States. The mine operators in the madness of their supposed power, and in their ef¬ fort to enslave labor, have used judges and courts to give the color of law to most flagrant violation of the con¬ stitutional rights of the people; sher¬ iffs arfd deputies, taking their cue from their superiors, have carried out this policy' and killled men exercising their rights under the constitution and the law. “In his published explanation Sheriff Martin makes an effort to secure the favor of our native Americans by re¬ peatedly the emphasizing his statement that miners be killed were foreign¬ ers. Jt may be true that these men were not native Americans, but they were the men brought here by the greed and cunning of the mine opera¬ tors, and so long as they submitted to being starved, no word as to their foreign birth was beard, but this cry of foreigners is like a cloud of dust raised to obscure tbe crime, The miuefs will win their humane and he roic struggle; they deserve to win; their conduct has challenged the ad¬ miration of their friends and sympa¬ thizers.” LYNCHED WHILE DYING. Kk-Convict Confessed to Heins; Miss Chap¬ man's Assailant. A special from Macon, Ga., says: Dying from a wound through a lung and surrounded by a small detachment of policemen and deputy sheriffs, Charley Gibson, limb a negro ex-convict, maddened was swung to a by a mob hear the city Sunday. Before the rope was placed around Gibson’s neck he confessed that he was the man who assaulted Miss Chapman a few days ago, and would not deny that he was Mrs. Couch’s assailant of a. month ago. „ VLien Gib«on received the wound through the lung, of which he was dying when lynched, he was making a desperate resistance against officers who were seeking to arrest him for murder—a crime which he had just committed. Tbe officers who hail Gibson bad little idea at that time that they were battling with the man who was responsible for one of the most shocking crimes in the criminal history of Macon. Not until with his dying breath Gibson confessed did bis captors know that the assault upon Miss Chapman had been cleared away. Early Han tiny morning Gibson shot Jim Smith, another negro, and was fleeing from the officers for that of¬ fense when bullets from Winchesters brought him down in a stubborn hand-to-hand fight. MORE FEVER IN NEW ORLEANS. Seven New Cased Reported by Hoard of Health Officers. A special from Nesv Orleans says: Shortly before noon Sunday the board of health officers declared six of the suspicious cases of fever on St. Claude to be yellow fever. A couple of hours subsequently the board of announc¬ yellow ed another pronounced Esplanade case fever at Mirro and streets, also in tbe lower part of the city, but a mile or more away from the infected square. the first six The announcement of cases as yellow fever was not unex¬ pected, although it was hoped from the delay on the part of the experts that these cases were simply of bilious malaria. No general alarm has re¬ sulted, although tlie tbe city. news The author¬ rapidly spread through tbe situation ities do not believe that is materially worse than-it was four or five days ago, and they are still confi¬ dent of their ability, with modern san¬ itary appliances, to district. successfully quar¬ antine the infected General Buggies Retired. • A Washington dispatch states that Adjutant Buggies was retired Satur¬ day on. account of age, and Colonel Samuel Breck was made a brigadier general and appointed adjutant general of the army. KLONDIKERS MAY STARVE. A Shortage of Food Supplies In tlie lute rlor Reported. The steamer Humboldt arrived at Seattle Monday morning from St. Michaels. She brought fourteen pas¬ sengers and about 015,000 in gold. Tbe Humboldt also brings back advices which reiterate tbe stories of the untold wealth of Klondike aud Yukon and verify the previous rumors of the shortage of food supply in the interior. There will be privation, sickness, starvation, scurvy and death on the Yukon this winter is what the return¬ ing gold hunters all say. Only seven passengers of the Humboldt bad t A BRACE OF TEAAS TILLAGES ALMOST DEMOLISHED. MORE THAN A DOZEN LIVES LOST. Many Houses Wore Lifted From Their Foundations and Sent Spinning; Through the Air. A tornado, terrible in its velocity, struck the little city of Fort Arthur, Tex., at an early hour Sunday even¬ ing, and six people are known to have been killed while many others were injured. Buildings were blown down and gr.eat damage was wrought by the cyclone. It is known that much destruction was wrought at Sabine Pass, with probable loss of life. Fverything pos¬ sible is being done to establish com¬ munication with that place. The following telegram has just been received from a prominent citi¬ zen at Beaumont: “The relief train has just returned from Sabine Pass. It could not get nearer than eight miles of the place. It is reported that the new town is completely gone. Nothing heard from the old town. From reports things are bad.” The dead are: Frank Albright, George Martin, unknown man, May Ainsworth, infant son of W. H. John¬ son and Fritz Michaels, laborer. Many are reported seriously injured. Many buildings were blown down, including the railroad roundhouse, where May Ainsworth was killed, the Natatorium, the bank building, Town Strong site company’s barns, Hotel Hayden, & League’s building, Brennan building, Golonade Hotel, Spence & Lyon’B building, C. J. Miller’s gro¬ cery store, several barns, Kenady’s saloon, Tbe Herald office, T. J. Wolfe’s saloon, tbe Hayes building and M. M. Zollinski’s grocery. • Several residences suffered severely, one being carried across the street. Many outbuildings were completely blown away. From early morning tbe sky was threatening and a^ stiff gale blew. No rain of consequence fell un¬ til 4 p. m., and then it was accompa¬ nied by a heavy wind that increased in intensity until it reached a velocity of eighty miles an hour. Every build¬ ing in the town is of frame construct ure except one brick, the Port Arthur Banking company building, one end and tbe roof of which were blown away. Tlie bodies of tbe victims were sent to Beaumont for interment, no ceme¬ tery having yet been started at Port Arthur. Advices from Winnie, Tex., say that nearly all the bouses there have been blown down, At Webb all of tbe barns and one house were demolished. A later telegram received from Port Arthur reports seven killed, fifteen wounded, three lost at Sabine, damage slight, maximum velocity of the wind eighty miles per hour. WOULD BUTCHER MILLIONAIRES. Some Fiery Speeches by “Social Democ¬ racy" Leaden In €hicax<>. A Chicago dispatch says: Meetings of the various branches of the newly organized Social Democracy were held to discuss the recent Hazleton, Pa., tragedy, and some decidedly lurid lan¬ guage was indulged in by the speak¬ ers. Resolutions were passed by Branch No. 2 which contained the following: “The blood of an idle and useless aristocracy is tbe most convenient me¬ dium for nourishing the tree of liberty. ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ For every miner killed and wounded a millionaire should be treat¬ ed in a similar manner. Tbe million¬ aire class is responsible for the slaugh¬ ter of September 10th, and we regard tbe torch as the most successful wea¬ pon to wield against them. ” Fitzgerald Murphy, president of Branch No. 2, made a speech, in which he said: “The miners should carry arms, and use them, too. The time has eome to meet force with force. I should have told them to. shoot to kill. I would kill twenty millionaires today. ” MANY TOWNS QUARANTINE. They Are Afraid of Contact With Passen¬ gers From Louisiana. Advices of Saturday state that the towns on every trunk line opening into New Orleans have declared quar¬ antine against Louisiana. Burgs in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Al¬ abama have declared that no people shall get off trains at their stations who come from the Crescent City. Other towns, however, have refused to join in the panic and say that until yellow fever is known absolutely to exist in New Orleans they do not pro¬ pose to shut themselves in. Some of the cities have adopted more severe measures and have surrounded them¬ selves with shotgun guards. NO. 10. SOUTHERN PROGRESS. New Industries Established In the South During the Past Week. According to reports received the past week activity in Southern indus¬ trial circles continues. A marked in¬ crease in the volume of trade is noted, and with the heavy demand for manu¬ factured products and advancing prices, it is the general opinion that a season of unusual prosperity has begun. Among the new industries for the week just ended The Tradesman re¬ ports the following: A 010,000 electric light plant at Aberdeen, Miss.; loco¬ motive works at Dallas, Tex.; the Hayden Cigarette Machine Co., capital 0200,000, Richmond, Ya.; the Mont¬ gomery Electric Light and Water Co., Montgomery, W. Va.; the Virginia Gold Mining Co. and the Gypsy Queen Gold Mining Co., Charleston, W. Ya.; the Timpson Brown Coal Co., Tiinp son, Tex.; an extensive pottery plant at Jacksonville, Fla.; a 050,000 lumber and grain manufacturing company at Lynchburg, Va,, and the Algoma Oil and Gas Co., capital $100,000, at Algoma, W, Va. A large spinning mill will be erected at Durham, N. G., and the Red Bluff Mills, capital 050,000, have been organized to build a cotton mill near Bennettsville, S. C. Wood¬ working plants will be established at Cordele, Ga.; Meridian, Miss.; Swan uauoa, S. C.; Lynchburg, Tenn.; Koanoke, Va., and Lock Seven, W. Va. —Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn). HOWARD ESCAPES. Was the Most Famous Prisoner Ever In Columbus, O,, Pen. Rev. G. F. B. Howard has escaped from the Ohio penitentiary. He was a most famous United States prisoner from Tennessee. He was trusted in the front office and walked away. Howard was convicted at Jackson, Tenn., and sentenced for 9 years and fined 01,200 on 22 counts of using United States mail for fraudulent pur¬ poses. His specialty was swindling alleged heirs to fabulous fortunes in England. One of the chief witnesses against him was Robert Lincoln, ex-minister, to England. Howard has many aliases and lias imposed upon some of tha best known families of the south, get* ting into the ministry, law and medi¬ cine. He is an Englishman. CANDLER DENOUNCES REPORTS Telegraphed to tlie New York Paper* Itegarding tlie Ferry Hanging. Judge John 8. Candler is indignant at the false statement about the Perry execution printed telegraphed from Atlanta World, and in tbe New York New York Journal and other papers. Be has received three letters from New York and other eastern cities, asking whether the dispatches were true. These statements were to the effect that the execution of Perry stirred up deep feeling among the people and a regiment of soldiers was called out to protect him on. the way from the At¬ lanta jail to the one at Decatur. Also that Judge Candler who sentenced Perry commanded the regiment and that people along the way jeered the soldiers and cursed the governor. WAS DENGUE FEVER. Town of .Kdwards, Mississippi, Issues a Bulletin to Associated Press. Excitement is at fever heat in Jaok son, Miss., over the yellow fever scare, caused almost entirely by tbe presence of thirty cases of dengue fever at Edwards, twenty-five miles west. At noon Monday the mayor of Ed¬ wards telegraphed the Associated Press as follows: “There ate only three new cases of den¬ gue fever this morning. All doing well. No yellow fever.” ? The mayor and aldermen of Jackson held a special meeting and issued a proclamation to the people, in which they say their fears are in-no wise re¬ lieved as to the situation in Edwards, but that tbe dengue fever existing at that point would be kept out of Jack son. SOLDIERS REFUGEE. ■“Yellow .Tack” Scares Tbom Away From New Orleans. The United States trpops who have been stationed at New Orleans have refugeed to Atlanta, Ga. ' Yellow fever scared the soldiers out of the Crescent City, and the authori¬ ties knowing that the dread disease eonld not live in Atlanta, ordered the troops to Fort McPherson. EXCITEMENT; SUBSIDING. No More Trouble Is Feared In tbe Hmelton Kegion* A special from Harrisburg, Pa., says: General Gobin notified tbe governor and military authorities Monday that there is nothing alarming in the strike situation in the Hazelton region, and that he has been assured that the in¬ structions against the marefimg of armed bodies will be obeyed. General Gobin reported that a num¬ ber of sensational stories had come to him, bnt investigation showed that there was no cause for alarm. Full power has been given Gobin, and he has ahundant authority nude* the circumstances.